Best in Show: Clingy Foes (Pt. I of II)

While often trashy, horror movies featuring an obsessive stalker can often be the most fun to watch. Plenty of cheesy, over-the-top and gratuitous films have been met by panning critics and fans that, while acknowledging the films' flaws, ate these movies and their trashy ridiculousness up. Movies about obsession are never the scariest, but they definitely are worth-watching and trashing surrounded by friends. This week's list observes the best horror movies to watch when you're feeling a little obsessive. If you resonate with any of these characters, chances are you've gone too far.




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8. The Roommate 

Perhaps one of the trashiest films to come out of the mid-2000s/early 2010s, The Roommate is every students worst nightmare. Making last week's list of best college horror films, The Roommate stars Leighton Meester as college freshman with sinister intentions. After moving into her room and meeting roommate Sara, Meester's Rebecca becomes very committed to their friendship. Beginning with the tiniest levels of copycatting and moving up the scale rather quickly, Rebecca covers a lot of ground; getting tattoos, killing small animals and eventually, going after people. The Roommate is the type of movie every college freshman should watch, if not to learn lessons, then simply to scare them.

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7. No Good Deed

Equal parts home invasion as it is obsession thriller, No Good Deed treads water a little more than it should, but at its core is a story that'll scare. Featuring a woman home alone with her two children and a stranger who comes knocking at her door, this movie is havoc and dark. While flawed in many ways, the on-screen command of stars Taraji P. Henson and Idris Elba are enough to make the movie feel worth it. Not only does it make the intentions of strangers more suspect, this movie will leave you checking your locks.



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6. Prom Night (2008) Loosely remade from the 1980 original, Prom Night follows Donna, a high school senior who witnessed her entire family murdered by an obsessed teacher as she prepares for prom. Like any great slasher, Prom Night features plenty of blood, lust and unsettling atmosphere.  Prom Night is best reserved for slumber parties and group get-togethers as you and your friends discuss the creepiest of teachers at your school or from your childhood because, let’s face it, every school has one. Even though this movie is extremely conventional, Prom Night is the perfect, trashy romp of a stalker film.
 

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5. P2

Nothing says Christmas spirit like getting locked in a parking garage by a security guard hell-bent on making you his lover. P2 is the often overlooked obsessive stalker flick that fans of the subgenre need to see. Easily one of the most unsettling stalker films around, this movie features a main villain so impossibly blinded by his obsession that it’s terrifying. Wes Bentley is incredible. His ability to make the character a horrifying stalker without being comical is fresh and incredible. He is a true scene stealer that viewers will love to hate.